Education: Goodbye to the Chief

It was stern, strict, and snobbisha cold facsimile of an English
public school. Boys were belted for the most minor offenses; some tried
to run away. Sons of the poor, who came on scholarships, were called
"rats" by wealthier students. St. Albans School for boys, owned by the
Cathedral Foundation (Episcopal) in Washington, D.C., was that sort of
place 20 years ago.

Then came a new headmastera big, twinkly-eyed Episcopal clergyman
named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World
War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy.
He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played...